Jason Haley

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Virtual Boston Azure Lunchtime November 2024

Today at lunchtime Bill Wilder and I spoke at the Virtual Boston Azure meetup. Our talks were based on the same material we presented on Tuesday night, however I introduced eShopSupport as well today. The recording of the session can be found on the (Lunchtime editions) Boston Azure YouTube channel. Talk: Add Gen AI to your existing .NET apps with Semantic Kernel & Azure SQL My part of the presentation PDF can be downloaded here. The resources: Semantic Kernel https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel Smart Components https://github.com/dotnet/smartcomponents eShopSupport https://github.com/dotnet/eShopSupport EFCore.SqlServer.VectorSearch https://github.com/efcore/EFCore.SqlServer.VectorSearch How to add genuinely useful AI to your webapp (not just chatbots) …

Posted by Jason on Friday, November 15, 2024

Virtual Boston Azure November 2024

Last night Bill Wilder and I spoke at the Virtual Boston Azure meetup. Our talks were about adding GenAI to .NET applications. My portion was mostly demos that focused on Azure SQL’s new native VECTOR support, Entity Framework Core and Semantic Kernel. The recording of the session can be found on the Boston Azure YouTube channel. Talk: Add Gen AI to your existing .NET apps with Semantic Kernel & Azure SQL The presentation pdf can be downloaded here. The resources: Semantic Kernel https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel Smart Components https://github.com/dotnet/smartcomponents EFCore.SqlServer.VectorSearch https://github.com/efcore/EFCore.SqlServer.VectorSearch How to add genuinely useful AI to your webapp (not just chatbots) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSNAvFJoP4M …

Posted by Jason on Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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Jason is an experienced developer and solutions architect focused on helping companies provide real business value with custom software development using the Microsoft stack of technologies. This includes C#, .NET, Azure and AI services. In 2024, Jason was awarded a Microsoft MVP in AI - highlighting his latest focus on AI and specifically Generative AI technologies in real world business applications. The prior seven years, he was a Microsoft Azure MVP.

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